1.Since it always was a seasonal cycle, and the ascendency followed this behavior, we averaged the ascendency over 365 successive days (duration of one year) in the oscillatory phase.
4.Brummell owed his ascendency to some curious combination of wit, of taste, of insolence, of independence--for he was never a toady--which it were too heavy-handed to call a philosophy of life, but served the purpose.